Re: Trying to install Guix with Qemu

* On 2014 21 Sep 13:56 -0500, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > This is weird, there’s no reason why it would be slower than whatever > else you did before. Are you running QEMU with ‘-enable-kvm’? Yes. The only difference that I could really see is that I chose to create my image in the qcow2 format rat

Re: guix-shell?

David Thompson skribis: > I abandoned the profile approach and tried to implement something > similar to what nix-shell does: Build all input derivations and set the > environment variables that a builder would set. My primary reason for > using the low-level derivations instead of high-level pa

Re: emacs package

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > >> And commit 0a9e9a6 switches Emacs to GTK+ 3. > > Mark noted that GTK+ 3 fails to build on mips, because Xorg fails to > build. Could you check whether the attached patch works around the > probl

Re: guix.el & multiple outputs

Alex Kost skribis: > Ludovic Courtès (2014-09-07 01:11 +0400) wrote: > >> Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer skribis: >> >>> By the way, it might be nice to have an option to list the secondary >>> outputs of a package explicitly alongside the normal, as if it were just >>> another package. >> >> Curr

‘profile-generations’

Alex Kost skribis: > From 3111cddeb2dcc7bbdd49e809e759aa4ab28c671e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Alex Kost > Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 14:24:09 +0400 > Subject: [PATCH 1/2] profiles: Add 'profile-generations'. > > * guix/profiles.scm (profile-generations): New procedure. [...] > From 51d776e94

Re: [PATCH] emacs: Rewrite scheme side in a functional manner.

Alex Kost skribis: > Ludovic Courtès (2014-09-20 18:11 +0400) wrote: [...] >> There are still a bunch of ‘set!’ and hash tables, though. ;-) > > There are only 2 ‘set!’s in: > > (define manifest->hash-table > (let ((current-manifest #f) > (current-table #f)) > (lambda (manifest)

Re: Listing sub-system maintainers?

Cyril Roelandt skribis: > On 09/16/2014 02:49 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Cyril Roelandt python, perl > > How did I end up with Perl? :-p Heh, it’s open for discussion. :-) Ludo’.

Re: Trying to install Guix with Qemu

Nate Bargmann skribis: > * On 2014 20 Sep 15:36 -0500, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> FWIW a recipe to install the system in a VM was posted at >> >> (also read subsequent messages for troubleshooting.) > > Trying the method shown in

Re: guix-shell?

Ludovic Courtès writes: > David Thompson skribis: > >> Should 'guix environment' create a new profile with all of the >> necessary packages in it? IIRC, nix shell doesn't do this, but I >> don't fully understand why and how. > > The thing is, all the packages in question must be registered as G

Re: Listing sub-system maintainers?

On 09/16/2014 02:49 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Cyril Roelandt python, perl How did I end up with Perl? :-p Cyril.

Re: Long-term Release Kernels

I think it would be useful to have both the long-term and latest releases. I can imagine use cases for both. Ludo’.

Long-term Release Kernels

I was wondering what people though about whether or not there should also be a long-term release kernel package (see the longterm section at [0]) in addition to the current one which always tracks the latest version? The short-term support versions provides all of the latest changes and features

Re: emacs package

l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > And commit 0a9e9a6 switches Emacs to GTK+ 3. Mark noted that GTK+ 3 fails to build on mips, because Xorg fails to build. Could you check whether the attached patch works around the problem? (Feel free to apply if it does.) Thanks, Ludo’. >From 9b85537

Re: [PATCH] emacs: Rewrite scheme side in a functional manner.

Ludovic Courtès (2014-09-20 18:11 +0400) wrote: > Alex Kost skribis: > >> From d42829fe03271e633e43cc35cf277705203e6080 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Alex Kost >> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 16:24:02 +0400 >> Subject: [PATCH 2/3] emacs: Rewrite scheme side in a functional manner. > > Good idea!